These pictures are from the first (and almost certainly last) show that we played as Alex and the Airplanes. It was 19 February 2010 at Lourdes College's Showtime talent show. Our two-song set was "Is it my Body" by Alice Cooper and "Heros" by David Bowie. I thought it was a pretty rockin' show!
This album contains all the pictures of hilarious english misspellings and mistranslations that I've seen in China. Unfortunately the camera will probably never capture the priceless interaction that goes (on a regular basis) as follows. I'm walking down the street and see an english T-shirt and read it. It inevitably says something like "Everyone, yes what? thereby you?" Or "I got more kick that you!" and I can't help but smile. The Chinese person wearing it sees me smiling and realizes how cool he must be because the white guy liked his english shirt. I love it when that happens.
Beijing Road is a pedestrian mall where they shut down several blocks of the road to traffic, and allow people to walk up and down the street browsing the different shops. I went there with two other foreign teachers and Zac bought a Rolex (or Faulex) from the upstairs room of some subtle little backstreet shop.
These are pictures that I took on the street and from the fire escape of the hotel that I stayed in the first few nights that I was in China. The streets have many cool neon and LED signs that make the city look exciting. Which it is :)
These are all the pictures that I've taken in and around my school. I teach at 北大附中 which is the affiliated high school of Peking University. The buildings have a really cool design.
My passion for science and critical thinking skills began as early as I can remember. Throughout my childhood I was interested in how the world worked, and why it worked the way it did. My strong subjects in elementary school were math and science. But by middle school science interested me less and less as it turned from thinking and exploring to memorizing vocabulary words to describe unexplained biological processes. Luckily my seventh grade and eighth grade science teachers began to again show me the fun in exploring the natural world.
